Just bought the sr4kp1. I entered the region free code but every time PAL content is being played my tv screen goes black and can only hear the sound (no picture). Can someone help me? My tv is a panasonic 42s2 plasma.

Just bought the sr4kp1. I entered the region free code but every time PAL content is being played my tv screen goes black and can only hear the sound (no picture). Can someone help me? My tv is a panasonic 42s2 plasma.

The older version had a option under TV System (Display Settings), where I think you could select NTSC/PAL or Multi. I can't find the specifications of the player so I can't find out if it supports PAL, but I'm sure other owners will help out.

It sounds like it just outputting PAL and your TV isn't up to it, so you might need to convert the PAL to NTSC, hopefully there's an option to do that!

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I picked one of these up a few weeks ago from Meh for only $43 and it works well so far. But it strikes me that the plastic case it's in is pretty flimsy. I'm curious to know people's experience with the unit's durability. Does it stand up well to extended use?

I picked one of these up a few weeks ago from Meh for only $43 and it works well so far. But it strikes me that the plastic case it's in is pretty flimsy. I'm curious to know people's experience with the unit's durability. Does it stand up well to extended use?

I picked up The SR4KP1 from monoprice last week and the audio options have me confused. I have an older receiver that doesn't decode the HD Codecs so I have my PS4 send Linear PCM to the receiver through HDMI so I can get HD sound. Since the PS4 decodes the sound, the receiver just displays PCM and sends out lossless audio.

When I select PCM auto on the Seiki, also connected to the receiver through HDMI, I only get Stereo Sound with both lossy and lossless audio. Only when I select bitstream do I get multichannel sound. With bitstream, lossy audio from DVD displays on the receiver as Dolby Digital 5.1 (or DTS 5.1) which makes sense since the receiver is decoding the codecs but when I play lossless audio, the receiver will also display Dolby or DTS as if it's decoding the lossless audio and I swear it sounds lossless which isn't possible. Maybe I'm going crazy.

Does the SR4KP1 do any decoding on it's own? I know I need a new receiver but I thought PCM had me covered?

I bought the Seiki to finally go Region free so it's not my main player. I'm just wondering what's up. Thanks.

Update:

I think everything is just downmixing. When in bitstream, 7.1 downmixes to 5.1 and when in PCM Auto, everything is in stereo, lossy and lossless. I also can't access some options like PCM 5.x or PCM 7.x.

Maybe my player is broken or something entirely different is wrong with it. My guess is it doesn't play nice with my receiver. I give up!

Looks like they stretched the sale out through 11:59 eastern time tonight (31 Aug).

Also, B&H is offering 2 and 3 year Squaretrade warranties with this for 5 and 8 bucks respectively.

I already own one of these and it's a decent unit, but it does occasionally make low pitch, sustained chirping noises during playback, only really noticeable in a quiet room. And there is one picture setting, I think its DNR, that can only be set to low and not turned off completely. But that region toggling feature sure is convenient.

Anyone have any problems with the 4K upconversion on this? When activated on my 4K TV, it seems to cause slight judder in movement of the image when playing back a blu-ray. No problem when just outputting 1080p.